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Key highway reopens after nine years Gulf-News, February 16. The key highway linking the northern Jaffna peninsula and the rest of the country was re-opened after a lapse of nine years following consensus reached between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil rebels of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).Three government ministers along with senior army officials attended the reopening ceremony bringing in the fist group of civilians from the uncleared areas into the cleared areas while the group travelling from the military cleared areas into the rebel controlled areas had to wait for three more hours before they started off. More... Published: Fri Feb 15 22:33:25 EST 2002

Related News Stories · Highway to Vanni reopened  - The Hindu (International)

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Ask Opposition Leader Mahinda The Lanka Academic is delighted to announce the 8th guest in its series of Q & A sessions: Hon. Mahinda Rajapaksa, the Leader of the Opposition in the Sri Lankan Parliament. With the recent change in leadership in the Sri Lankan government, the peace process appears to be gaining fresh new momentum. This is your opportunity to ask questions from Hon. Mahinda Rajapaksa related to Sri Lankan politics and receive answers by clicking here. The answers will appear here.

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IMF may revive $253 mn Lanka loan after budget TOI, february 16. he International Monetary Fund said on Thursday it may revive a $253 million standby loan programme for Sri Lanka after the new government presents its first budget in March...

Sri Lanka's PM Wickremesinghe visits Singapore Yahoo Singapore, February 16. Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is in Singapore on a two-day working visit, called on Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong at the Istana on Friday...

Sri Lanka's peace process - An Editorial The Independent, febraury 16. A commentator described it as Sri Lanka's ``peace process No...

Rights Groups Releases List Of Children Allegedly Recruited UN Wire, february 16. Amnesty International yesterday released a list of 13 children between the ages of 12 and 16 it suspects have been forcibly recruited as soldiers by the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka, despite a truce with government forces...

Police hopeful of nabbing Faluludden The Hindu (Southern States), 16 February 2002. The State Police are hopeful of nabbing soon M. S. Faluludden alias Mohammed Siddick, a Sri Lankan National and NDPS Act convict who escaped from the Salem Government Hospital on February 10...

Sri Lankan minister raps 'obnoxious' Valentine's Day Kyodo News, february 14. Sri Lankan Justice Minister W.J.M. Lokubandara on Thursday rapped the ''obnoxious'' commercialization of Valentine's Day but said he did not oppose people celebrating it...

In Lanka’s north, life’s tough even without embargo Times of India, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2002 1:13:38 AM . 13:38 AM ] ALLAVI: When the Sri Lankan government lifted the economic embargo and permitted goods to be sent to LTTE-controlled areas in the north, most of the people were ecstatic...

Retired naval officer to help UNHCR in Sri Lanka The Star, february 14. When Commander (Rtd) Thayaparan A.S. Nathan joined Yayasan Salam as a volunteer more than a year ago, little did he reliase that his experience and qualification will take him to Sri Lanka...

Sri Lanka Tour Offers Lessons for Local Cricket Nothern Light, Friday, February 15, 2002 6:20 PM EST . Feb 16, 2002 (The Nation/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- Kenya's cricket coach Sandip Patil is a worried man, as indeed are Kenya Cricket Association's ambitious officials...

Chandrika not briefed about draft proposal Gulf-News, 15 February 2002. President Chandrika Kumara-tunga's office claims that the United National Front (UNF) government has not briefed her on the proposed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to be signed with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)...

AG to withdraw indictments under section 5 of PTA Tamilnet, 15 February 2002. The Attorney General has instructed all State Counsels who appear on behalf of the AG's department in High Courts to withdraw two categories of cases filed under Section 5 of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA)...

Peace talks, lessons of history and surrender-syndrome DailyStar, February 13. The fate of the JR-Rajiv Pact, the peace talks with Mr. Premadasa and Mrs...

Oil palm plantations fuel discontent in Sri Lanka AT - Feizal Samath , 15 February 2002. Sri Lanka is replacing some of its traditional rubber plantations with oil palm, a controversial move that first drew criticism from the rubber industry and is now drawing the ire of environmentalists...

World Cup will be corruption free: Lord Condon Yahoo India, Friday February 15, 6:30 PM. Based on the measures put in place all over the world the head of International Cricket Council's anti-corruption operation today expressed the firm conviction that the international game was on target for a corruption-free World Cup in 12 months time...

Globalisation no boon for labour force Yahoo India, Friday February 15, 2:14 PM. Real income of as many as 50 crore (500 million) people in South Asia declined in the past decade when the region was going in for globalisation, according to a new human development report titled "Human Development in South Asia 2001", reports UNI...

President calls for report on Aturugiriya raid Frederica Jansz in Colombo, 3.10 p.m. SLT Thursday February 14. President Chandrika Kumaratunge has called upon Interior Minister John Amaratunge to submit a full and comprehensive report on the police raid into an Army safe house at Aturugiriya on January 2, this year...

Sri Lanka Muslims protest rebel abductions MSNBC, Thursday, 14th Feb, 12:34 GMT. Thousands of enraged Muslims protested in eastern Sri Lanka on Thursday against a wave of abductions blamed on Tamil Tiger guerrillas...

Swearing-in of new ministers delayed Gulf-News, 15 February 2002. The swearing-in of the expanded cabinet in Sri Lanka has been delayed as the members want Prime Minister Ranil Wickre-mesinghe to be present...

Sri Lankan peace bid reopens ''Highway of Death'' MSNBC, Friday, 15th Feb, 09:51GMT. Sri Lanka reopened its ''Highway of Death'' on Friday, accomplishing with a gesture of goodwill what some of the bloodiest battles in the two-decade-old ethnic war failed to achieve...

Sri Lankan Prime Minster on Working Visit to Singapore Yahoo Singapore, 15 February 2002. Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremesinghe will make a working visit to Singapore from 15-16 February, the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement...

CID raided Ratwatte's residence Gulf-News, 15 February 2002. The CID have raided the residence of former deputy defence Minister General Anuruddha Ratwatte in search of two of his sons, who are absconding, even as a court in central Sri Lanka issued a fresh warrant for their arrest...

Net collapse warning CERT, 15 February 2002. The United States computer network watchdog, the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) yesterday issued its biggest warning ever - a 17-page document - that computer systems worldwide could be shutdown, rebooted, erased and used to attack other systems...

Children kidnapped to fight for Tamil army Times Online - Catherine Philp in Batticaloa, 14 February 2002. THE knock at the door came just before midnight. Kanthan stirred when he heard the gentle sound, but, seeing his mother and his siblings asleep, he turned over and closed his eyes again...

Officials quizzed about plot to kill minister Gulf-News, 15 February 2002. Presidential office staff, a former senior official of the Defence Ministry and a Member of Parliament from the opposition have been quizzed about an alleged conspiracy to assassinate Minister S...

Legal aid for political victims Frederica Jansz in Colombo, 8 a.m. SLT Thursday February 14. Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapakshe has begun a program to provide legal aid for persons employed in state corporations and institutions and who have been targets of political victimization...

Pakistan left out of global arms dealers’ meet Yahoo India, 15 February 2002. Global arms companies assemble in New Delhi through next week, in what will be the largest exhibition in the subcontinent of weapon and support systems for militaries...

President and prisoner Times Online, 14 February 2002. For a woman whose vision is to bring peace to her country, Chandrika Kumaratunga's horizons are now very restricted...

Sri Lankan premier to seek investments in Singapore Yahoo/IANS, 15 February 2002. Sri Lankan Prime Minster Ranil Wickremesinghe will explore investment and tourism opportunities during his four-day official trip to Singapore beginning Thursday, officials said...

Sri Lanka's Buddhist monks declare war on V-Day Yahoo/IANS, 14 February 2002. Sri Lanka's influential Buddhist clergy has declared war on Valentine's Day and called for laws to stop its celebration, saying it would lead to a spiritual decline among young people...

Why sensible Sri Lankans worry about the prospect of peace Globe and Mail-Paul Knox, 14 February 2002. Sri Lanka, the battle-scarred island off the southeast coast of India, appears closer to a lasting peace than at any time in the past decade...

Government lifts restrictions on medicines for LTTE- controlled areas Nothern Light, Thursday, February 14, 2002 4:50 PM EST . The Sri Lanka government Thursday lifted all restrictions on transport of medicines and medical equipment to the LTTE-controlled areas in the north with immediate effect, the United News of India (UNI) agency reported...

Norway in damage-control bid after leak Gulf-News - Sinha Ratnatunga , 14 February 2002. Embarassed Norwegian diplomats have embarked on a process of damage-control following the leak of a sensistive document outlining a proposal to ensure a permanant ceasefire between government troops and separatist guerrillas, which has triggered protests from nationalist groups in the country...

Sri Lankan minister raps 'obnoxious' Valentine's Day Kyodo News, 14 February 2002. Sri Lankan Justice Minister W.J.M. Lokubandara on Thursday rapped the ''obnoxious'' commercialization of Valentine's Day but said he did not oppose people celebrating it...

SRI LANKA FORUM @ CeBIT 2002 Manjula Seneviratne, 14 February 2002. The Sri Lanka Export Development Board will be organizing the Sri Lanka participation at CeBIT 2002 to be held in Hannover, Germany from 13th to 20th of March...

Large Lankan firms told to generate own power Yahoo India/ANI, 14 February 2002. A crippling power crisis in Sri Lanka is ushing Ceylon Electricity Board to look for large private ompanies to generate power on their own, an official said on ednesday...

UN treaty sets new standard on young soldiers Times Online, 14 February 2002. AS AN estimated 300,000 child soldiers continue fighting in about 30 conflicts across the world, a United Nations treaty came into force yesterday prohibiting the deployment of warriors under the age of 18...

Gold deposits in Walawe CDN, 14 February 2002. A scientific research study has revealed that gold deposits are available in the Walawe basin, Director of the Post Graduate Institute of Science (PIS) Prof...

Indo-Lanka Free Trade Agreement to Be Renegotiated Nothern Light, Wednesday, February 13, 2002 10:04 PM EST . The Indo-Lanka Free Trade Agreement will be renegotiated at the end of March to expand Sri Lanka's export to neighboring India, the official Daily News said on Thursday...

Tamil Tiger areas to get medicines BBC South Asia, Wednesday, 13 February, 2002, 14:52 GMT . The Sri Lankan Government has lifted all restrictions on medicine and hospital equipment going to the north of country, the scene of two decades of ethnic conflict...

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